Known for her warmth and patience, San Francisco mediator Catherine Yanni has a record of settling multimillion-dollar lawsuit...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Reform efforts deserve a more honest and open debate. By Michael A.S. Newman ...

Vice President of Legal Affairs at ChargePoint Inc. Campbell ...

In a major victory for people with disabilities, a consent decree was recently filed to settle a lawsuit alleging that LSAC ex...

Quietly nestled within the court's ultimate ruling is a subtle rebuke of the 9th Circuit's coddling of the entertainment indus...

While AB 2365 is a step in the right direction in protecting a customer's right to post negative reviews online, a better bill...

Juniper Networks Inc. will receive about $175 million from Palo Alto Networks Inc. to resolve pending patent infringement liti...

Just a day after issuing a scathing presentation to shareholders denouncing its would-be acquirer's business model, Allergan I...

SB 1010, which would bring crack cocaine sentences in line with those for powder cocaine, goes to the Assembly next. ...

Awardees from left: sole practitioner Jason Elter; Jonathan M. Wong, partner at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP; Port of Oakland attorn...

A second appeal is still pending over a lower court ruling that Palmdale switch to a district-based election system. ...

A bill that would allow tenants at assisted living homes to sue if various standards of service aren't met moved forward Wedne...

A marketing firm that had won millions from a Los Angeles jury for claims that pen maker Pentel stole its idea will have to go...

The yearly award is given to in-house legal departments, law firms and legal service providers that show an effort in balancin...

Justices appears skeptical in oral argument that City of Sonora should have done environmental review when it adopted a voter ...

Last week, it seemed lawmakers might withdraw support for a major funding increase for courts. But the judicial branch now has...

State prosecutors argued in the state Supreme Court Wednesday that a person involved in a serious car accident can be convicte...

Legal observers said one of S&P's main tactics appears to be to paint the government as an aggressor seeking retribution. ...

A roundup of recent real estate deals and the attorneys involved.

In the recession, many firms cut summer associate programs, a choice that some say prevented them from snagging talented young...

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit did something it had never done before: It decided that a tra...

Following past unsuccessful efforts to bar the sale of smartphone products offered by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Apple Inc....

Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey received the GirlPower Community Impact Award for providing outstanding service to ...

Today's law school graduates are less likely to go to a big firm job and less likely to stay very long if they do, as in-house...

The hearing is part of ongoing proceedings against gunman Scott Evans Dekraai, who pleaded guilty last month to killing eight ...

An appellate court has ruled that the nation's largest public pension fund can pursue its lawsuit against the nation's top cre...

AB 2346, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, would have set up a program for doctors to pursue drug addiction treat...

The creator of an online legal database has sued the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the American Bar Association an...

Within the last month, two local initiatives banning fracking and other high-intensity petroleum extraction techniques qualifi...